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October 15, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Wealth tax Daniel Dunkley (Stuff): Tax the wealthy? I don’t think so Heather Du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): National’s ‘wealth tax’ assault isn’t working Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s absurd day in Christchurch, still battling ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 15 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/15/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-15-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 15 2020">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
By Samisoni Pareti in Suva Attempts to remove the University of the South Pacific pro-chancellor and one of its council’s committee chairperson – both of Fiji – were thwarted yesterday when the USP Council special meeting ran out of time. Fiji’s five-member delegation led by its Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum were accused of stalling the deliberation ... <a title="Bid to oust USP’s pro-chancellor thwarted by Fiji ‘stalling’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/bid-to-oust-usps-pro-chancellor-thwarted-by-fiji-stalling/" aria-label="Read more about Bid to oust USP’s pro-chancellor thwarted by Fiji ‘stalling’">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage John Perry From Masaya US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched another attack on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government last month, accusing President Daniel Ortega of being a “dictator” who is “doubling down on repression and refusing to honor the democratic aspirations of the Nicaraguan people.”[1] The State Department openly ... <a title="Nicaragua, attacked for following the same US policies against foreign meddling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/nicaragua-attacked-for-following-the-same-us-policies-against-foreign-meddling/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaragua, attacked for following the same US policies against foreign meddling">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Wealth tax, Labour-Greens coalition negotiations Tim Watkin (Pundit): What Else Apart From A Wealth Tax? The Shape Of A Labour-Greens Coalition Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Jacinda Ardern’s deputy dilemma Audrey Young (Herald): It takes two ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 14 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-14-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 14 2020">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Election Graeme Edgeler (Democracy Project): How to vote, and how to think about voting John Armstrong (1News): Pressure on Collins to lift National votes, even in defeat Colin Gavaghan (Pundit): The Comforting Myth Of ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 13 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-13-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 13 2020">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2020
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch In this new covid-19 world, environmental and climate crisis defenders are developing new ways to cope and operate under the pandemic constraints. Groups as diverse as the local branch of the global environmental campaigner Greenpeace Pacific, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Green Party in ... <a title="How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/12/how-pacific-environmental-defenders-are-coping-with-the-covid-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2020
By RNZ Pacific The West Papua Council of Churches wants an end to what it says is the re-militarisation of the region. It wrote to Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo and also asked him to follow through on his commitment to meet with Papuan pro-referendum groups. The churches said they were writing because of the escalation ... <a title="West Papua churches call on Widodo to end militarisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/12/west-papua-churches-call-on-widodo-to-end-militarisation/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua churches call on Widodo to end militarisation">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Māori TV-Curia Tāmaki Makaurau poll, Māori electorates Māori TV: Tāmaki Makaurau seat up for grabs? – Poll results Martyn Bradbury ( Daily Blog): Shock poll: Tamaki Makarau – Peeni 35% Tamihere 29% Rachel Sadler ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 12 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-12-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 12 2020">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2020
ANALYSIS: By John Minto Tēna koutou tēna koutou, tēna tātau katoa The topic of this talk is about the lies told about Palestine by the pro-Israeli lobby. That might sound a bit downbeat and negative but I can assure you it is not. I hope tonight you will go away feeling positive, clear headed and ... <a title="John Minto: The truth behind the lies being told about Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/11/john-minto-the-truth-behind-the-lies-being-told-about-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: The truth behind the lies being told about Palestine">Read more</a>
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October 10, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk By officially passing the controversial Omnibus Law on Job Creation this week, Indonesia’s House of Representatives (DPR), has triggered widespread protests and accusations of “betrayal”, reports CNN Indonesia. The House passed the law in a plenary session on Monday and accelerated the scheduled ratification – which had been planned for Thursday, ... <a title="Environmental movement condemns Indonesia’s ‘betrayal of the people’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/10/environmental-movement-condemns-indonesias-betrayal-of-the-people/" aria-label="Read more about Environmental movement condemns Indonesia’s ‘betrayal of the people’">Read more</a>
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October 10, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis At precisely 10am 50 years ago today, Fiji gained its independence from Britain when HRH, the Prince of Wales, handed our founding Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, the formal instruments of independence and the Fijian flag. Our noble banner blue – was hoisted for the first time over Suva’s Albert ... <a title="Graham Davis: Happy 50th Independence Day, Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/10/graham-davis-happy-50th-independence-day-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: Happy 50th Independence Day, Fiji">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Peter M. TaseFrom Asunción, Paraguay Landlocked, hit by wildfires, engulfed in a prolonged rainfall shortage and drought, and with its people succumbed into malnourishment, the Republic of Paraguay under the leadership of Mario Abdo Benítez is confronted with an overwhelming number of middle income families that have ... <a title="Paraguay marred by violence at home and uncertain foreign policy abroad " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/paraguay-marred-by-violence-at-home-and-uncertain-foreign-policy-abroad/" aria-label="Read more about Paraguay marred by violence at home and uncertain foreign policy abroad ">Read more</a>
